Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stifling courtroom heat, Judge Swango permitted shirtsleeved informality, but he permitted no looseness with the law. The jurors were carefully questioned; many who disclosed some obvious hint of prejudice were excluded...
...cannot complain about what happens to us." The jury took just over an hour to decide: "Not guilty." A juror later explained: "If we hadn't stopped to drink pop, it wouldn't have taken that long." When the verdict came in, Prosecutor Chatham stared across the courtroom...
...mock courtroom set up in Philadelphia for the American Bar Association last week, five news photographers busily took more than 300 pictures while a "trial" was in progress. The demonstration was staged by the National Press Photographers Association, which is campaigning to open U.S. courtrooms to news photographers (TIME, June 20). Taking pictures quietly, using high-speed film and other equipment that would not disturb the dignity of a court, the five photographers moved around the courtroom so quietly that many of the 300 lawyers present did not know a test was going...
Sergeant James Gallagher, looking blandly poised, took the stand last week to defend himself against charges that he had consorted with the Chinese Communists while a prisoner of war in Korea, and had caused the deaths of three of his comrades (TIME, Aug. 22). Before him in the courtroom on Governors Island in New York Harbor sat a court-martial of three colonels, four lieutenant-colonels and a major; behind him, amid the rows of spectators, sat his mother...
...sentence of life at hard labor, Sergeant Gallagher still looked well-fed and well-groomed at week's end; he showed himself deferential and eager to help those in authority, this time his lawyers, in little ways like quickly passing the Scotch tape and paper clips along the courtroom table when they were required. "Once I get back to the States I'm not worried," Gallagher once told a reactionary. "All I have to do is to plead that I did those things under mental duress." Gallagher did not believe that the U.S. Government could do anything...